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Time seems to make few changes. Still, in each decade, there are those who stand, speak out, express their indignation with full power and passion. The brave, distinguished Harvard scholars, George Wald, Erik Erikson, and Robert Coles are three such bold exceptions in our time. None, I think, will wish to be identified with all of my own views. There is a certain protocol at Harvard which commands a mild degree of kindness and discretion to one's fellow-members of the Common Room. It is, indeed, this very kindness which at length proves most alarming...
...area into the economic anchor of Middle America. They shrug off charges that extra acreage was bought so they could call their airport the world's biggest and ignore the fact that Montreal is building a bigger one. Theirs is the biggest now. Says former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, who helped bring the two cities together in the first place: "A wholly different world will be opening...
...popularity of the programs reflects a growing interest in archaeology on the part of the students, who seem to counter the creed of the "now" generation in their fascination with the past. Some of the compulsion for archaeology, suggests Bryn Mawr Graduate Student Erik Nielson, is that "you can only learn so much from books. There comes a point when you have to kneel over a trench and handle an object that's fresh from the ground." Despite the long hours, backbreaking and often boring labor, an increasing number of students have been doing just that. Some...
...child: "Karl Menninger has an earthy sense of what is happening to people. In his work there is an encounter between American intuitive psychological wisdom and the European spirit of psychoanalysis, which he made part of the training of a whole generation of psychiatrists." Adds Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson: "In his books [Man Against Himself, Love Against Hate, The Vital Balance], Menninger translates Freud into American literature. He has not been a popularizer in the cheap sense, but rather an enlightener...
...arduous assignment of dancing all four heroines (La Stella, Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta) went to Cynthia Gregory, 27. Although Gregory emerged only last year as a star of the company, she has already been hailed by Dancer-Choreographer Erik Bruhn as "the greatest American ballerina since Maria Tallchief ." Dancer Gregory brought to Hoffmann an enchanting grace and elan worthy of a Giselle, testifying to her thoroughgoing professionalism. Swedish Dancer Jonas Kage, 22, struggled noticeably as the hero, merely indicating that he was not the only one incapable of getting Hoffmann off the ground...